S.F. deputy dies, 2 others injured in crash near Pittsburg

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY

Published 4:00 am, Saturday, January 12, 2008

An off-duty San Francisco sheriff's deputy was killed Friday in a crash on Highway 4 near Pittsburg that injured two other drivers, including an off-duty Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy, authorities said.

The crash happened shortly after 8 a.m. on eastbound Highway 4 west of Bailey Road, said Officer Scott Yox of the California Highway Patrol. The circumstances of the crash were under investigation.

The Contra Costa deputy, driving a Honda, and a 52-year-old Antioch man driving a GMC pickup were injured and taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, authorities said. Their conditions and names were not released.

The Contra Costa deputy, a 42-year-old Brentwood man, has been with the department for two years and is assigned to the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the CHP tip line at (800) 835-5247 or the Contra Costa County sheriff's dispatch line at (925) 646-2441.